Sciences
1,500 famous people found
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Carl Gustav Jung
Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist
1875 - 1961
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Peter Higgs
British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles
1929 - 2024
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Wernher von Braun
German and American aerospace engineer and space architect
1912 - 1977
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II
1904 - 1967
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Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943
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Jane GOODALL
English primatologist and anthropologist
1934
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Sergey BRIN
American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Google
1973
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Howard CARTER
British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun
1874 - 1939
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Marie CURIE
French-Polish chemist and physicist
1867 - 1934
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Alan TURING
English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist
1912 - 1954
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Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922
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Arthur CONAN DOYLE
Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes
1859 - 1930
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Sigmund FREUD
Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
1856 - 1939
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Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519
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Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832
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Isaac NEWTON
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
1643 - 1727
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Salvador Allende
Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile
1908 - 1973
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Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist
1879 - 1955
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Louis Pasteur
French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist
1822 - 1895
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Irène JOLIOT-CURIE
French scientist
1897 - 1956